Film Review: Syriana (James Brookfield)
Posted on Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
World Socialist Web Site, 24 December 2005
Syriana, written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, based on See No Evil by Robert Baer (Keep reading…)
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The War on Spielberg’s”Munich” (Michelle Goldberg)
Posted on Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/12/20/munich/print.html
Neoconservatives launch a preemptive strike on Spielberg’s latest, which dares to break the rules of post-9/11 political correctness. (Keep reading…)
Film Review: The Constant Gardener brings Le Carré’s anti-corporate anger to the big screen (Derrick O’Keefe)
Posted on Monday, September 12th, 2005
www.SevenOaksMag.com
The dean of spy novelists, John Le Carré, has, with his last two efforts, blistered his pages with anger at corporate power and the stuffed, imperial arrogance of the United States and Great Britain. In his most recent work, Absolute Friends, for instance, a tale of two veteran spies morphs into an aggressive denunciation of the U.S.-U.K. war on Iraq. (Keep reading…)
New Cinema from Winnipeg Streets: Noam Gonick’s Stryker (Steven Loft)
Posted on Saturday, January 1st, 2005
January/February 2005 Issue of Canadian Dimension/em>
I thought I would dislike Stryker, the newest film by acclaimed indie filmmaker Noam Gonick. The story is relatively simple: a struggle between two street gangs, certainly not an overly original story line and one which hollywood trots out on a regular basis. From West Side Story to Boyz ’N the Hood, we’ve all seen the formula. But this is certainly no West Side Story. (Keep reading…)
Resolutely Hopeful: A Conversation with Avi Lewis (Malcolm Rogge)
Posted on Thursday, July 1st, 2004
July / August 2004 Issue
The Take, 84 minutes
directed by Avi Lewis, written by Naomi Klein
National Film Board and Barna-Alper Productions, 2004 (Keep reading…)